37 pages 1 hour read

John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, Illustr. Peter Mueller

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

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Essay Topics

1.

Explain how Fred’s bottle experiment proves there’s a danger to the penguin colony’s home iceberg. What might be a real-world parallel to this experiment?

2.

How does Louis prepare his new crisis team to do effective work? List two activities that he assigns them and suggest how those activities improve the team’s effectiveness.

3.

List two of the suggestions for iceberg repair that were discarded and suggest why they wouldn’t work. Then think up an additional idea not mentioned in the story that might keep the iceberg stable for a longer time.